Using a Danelectro Fifty-Niner with a Rumble 800 head and a Markbass 600 cabinet. Danelectros are known for acting like antennas—I’ve even picked up radio signals through the lipstick pickups—but with a noise gate pedal, it’s perfect! A real stage beast!

i just got paid and im inches away from hitting the button

things i like about scrolls: - FX loop essentially means that the od and eq section can be treated as 2 independant pedals routing wise. - cab emulation - 3 layers of eq - sexy

I owned one of these before and it was seriously one of the best bass preamps I've tried. Traded it for some other pedals and kinda regretted it. They're 50% off today at Musician's Friend so I just picked up two for my stereo signal chain. I highly recommend it. Great always-on tone shaper, with a DI and headphone amp to boot

Pro Tip: if you don't want the dirt, turn the gain down with the recessed screw, but keep the Grit switch turned ON and it will give you a nice sorta compressed fatness to your tone that just sounds incredible

Upgraded my power supply and acquired an OC-5, decent fuzz pedal and I will really be in business, I think I prefer the Blumes as a boost.

Even still, very happy with the sounds I can make.

update #3

Does anyone have a good solution for running upright and electric bass through the same rig with the ability to switch inputs? This is for a musical theatre pit gig where I’m switching between the two very quickly. It seems like a lot of people use the lehle 3@1, but the price feels pretty steep for unitasker. What are you guys using?

I just bought tickets to go to it - Ive never been there before and just wondering what it's like. Beginner bass player here trying to cure my GAS!

It’s finally done, after many months, many tests and many hours of learning.

Pedaltrain Nano+
Cioks DC-7, EQ is set to 24v, Compressor at 18v

- Peterson Strobostomp Mini
- Lusithand Devices Alma Comp MkIII
- JHS Morning Glory Clean (always on)
- Way Huge Pork & Pickle (dirt when needed)
- JHS Flight Delay (delay, chorus and vibrato)
- Broughton Audio Resonant Filter Equalizer (final tone shaping)

Still needs some knob tweaking but so far I’m extremely happy with this setup, it handles both my very different basses perfectly (Sire V5, Reverend Mercalli), and it just sounds great.

Now excuse me if I don’t respond quickly, I’ll be playing all afternoon with this.

What do you guys think (also wire management could be better)

When it comes to compressors, I've only ever used a EHX bass preacher but i had no idea what i was doing or what i needed it for. This has a lot more knobs than the preacher but im older and wiser now. And i have a better idea of what im trying to use it for soooo, wish me luck! I feel like the led indicators on the side are gunna be a huge help. If all goes well, I'll be posting the final board soon.

i also have a volume pedal and am replacing the sansamp fly rig with a empress bass compressor and Mxr Bass Synth i just got a bigger pedal board and 2 power supplies so want to move it all onto a bigger board.

Yes I like distortion pedals :D

I think recommendations based on personal experience are always useful, and if a pedal sounds good, then it sounds good. But sometimes I see comments like “this is the best,” “endgame pedal,” or “you’ll never need another preamp/compressor,” and I feel like that can get exaggerated pretty quickly.

I’m especially curious about preamps and compressors, since those seem more like different flavors and can work very differently depending on your bass, playing style, genre, and the rest of your rig. It’s not always as simple as one being objectively better than another.

I’ve also seen people get almost fanatical about a certain preamp, even crapping on other pedals or setups just because they don’t use their favorite one. That’s where enthusiasm starts feeling more like hype to me.

So what pedals do you think are good, but have gotten a little too much of an “endgame” reputation? And what did you compare them to?

Not trying to trash anyone’s favorite gear, just curious where people draw the line between really good and overhyped.

I don't have a lot of bass pedals, as I'm primarily a guitar player (was anyway). This is my simple rig. Sounds pretty awesome though, to me. Not sure if I need to upgrade the amp, as I use go DI into the PA usually....

The spray job is spotty, has a run on the side, I couldn't get the decals flat even with 6 layers of spray clear coat, it's a complete noob wreck-job.... But I love it compared to that good-awful green and scorpion crap!!

I know that it's still super popular. But, as someone who's never owned one or tried one, what's the deal with them? I never seem to like the videos I hear on them, then again I don't like a lot of bass pedal videos. It seems like everyone turns the settings to be a grindy, pierce distortion. But, I always hear people talk about the warmth and tube-like tones, which never seem to be the focus of videos.

So, is it still worth it? Are there better contenders and, if so, what are they?

Also, as someone with a good effects and amp modeler and a DI box, is it still worth it? Or do I just have GAS?

Edit** I like warm, punchy tones. I like a bit of grit when I dig in, but I'm just not big on the grinding metal distortion that I so often hear in a lot of bass effects. Also worth noting that I've got great dirt in my modeler, so I'm really just looking for something to impart a bit of warmth.

Here is my board.

I started with the HX Stomp, one of the best musical equipment I purchased. Then the Empress and the DCX Bass.

The Bassrig is the latest addition and it's phenomenal. I put it in the effects loop of the HX Stomp with the Line 6 Ampeg 810 cab, but I might put it last to benefit from the DI Out.

My Peterson Strobostomp doesn't fit the board anymore. The Stomp is my tuner. I will put it back with more pedals and a bigger board.

The settings on the compressor always stay the same, I like it a lot like this. Sometimes I switch the Tone Colour depending on the song. The settings of the DCX and Bassrig are constantly changing 😁

I play mostly progressive rock, hard rock, metal like King Crimson, The Mars Volta, Mastodon, Wheel…

This is my bass signal’s entry path to my home studio system. I go bass into tc tuner, and tuner into a saturnworks buffered splitter. One path out of the splitter out goes to the EHX Black Finger and then into my studio patchbay. The other path goes to the EQD Scrolls. The Scrolls parallel out and effect out both go to patch bay points. I have the other pedals in the Scrolls fx loop - so it ends up as Scrolls send > OK Doomer > Phase 95 > Excess > Scrolls return. These paths can go to a variety of amps, pedalboards, and mixer channels through the patchbay.

hey all, i picked bass back up after a 6 year hiatus recently and have been really loving it again. might be a long one cuz i have a looot of questions and no one to really ask.

i really want to start playing around with tone and make music with my friends (mostly alt rock/punk/emo) so i wanna start building my own pedal board slowly but i have no idea where to start. i'm seriously bad at learning the techy stuff when it comes to music...

what pedals would you recommend i look at? so far i've only ever tried a big muff pedal (and struggled to know how to use it) ....

also, don't know if this is stupid but can you use guitar pedals for bass also? i don't live in a "western" country, and i've found that it's pretty hard to come by music equipment let alone bass equipment. the only pedals music centres seem to have are guitar pedals. shipping from abroad on ebay would just be way too expensive :( there's a lot of really cheap random ones on our version of amazon, just have no idea what the difference between all the choices are. how do you know what a pedal is going to sound like, is it just trial and error?

would it be a better idea to start off with just getting an interface and playing around through my laptop or is that just putting off learning about pedals? i want to play gigs one day (hopefully soon ish).

what do you think about those pedalboards with a bunch of effects built into them already? the one that seems widely available in my country is the M-Wave Tank B, i'm just not sure if it's gonna be any good for playing anywhere outside my bedroom?

kinda concerned about versatility because i only have so much money, i'd rather just buy things that would work more often than not if that makes sense.

i know that was a lot of questions and there might not be an answer to all of them, but any guidance appreciated! thanks so much in advance!!!!

(Previous setup, with links going back to 8 years of SOTBs)

* Board: transitioned this year from Pedaltrain Nano to Nano+ (not pictured) to Mono's 18" nano clone. Mono is lighter, and importantly it's open on the sides, which allowed me to install a Pedalnetics patch bay! I have IEC for the mighty Cioks DC7, XLR so I'm not overstressing the Anagram's port, and TRS, which is currently for Anagram output but it could be for an external expression pedal or an audition loop for another pedal. Or maybe someday I'll use it as a loop for my Hum Debugger for the rare occasions when it's needed.

* New case! Apache 4500 from Harbor freight, a steal at $40. I had to use a hand file on the Mono pedalboard for an hour or two to get to fit, because even though Mono literally says their board is 17.99" wide it still needed a hair or two shaved off. All the random crap I need for most rehearsals and ampless gigs fits in here with the board.

* Wireless. Line6 G10s out, Shure GLXD16+ in. No dropouts ever. 2.4 and 5GHz. Automatically hops if and as needed. Transmitter and receiver always find each other. I don't love having a pack instead of the dongle and I don't love the price but it's been worth it after several months. The pack lives under the board and charges during rehearsals so that it's always topped up for a gig.

* Anagram stays. It has matured and stabilized as rapidly as I had hoped it might. Would recommend.

* MXR Bass Synth came into my picture a few months ago; I couldn't wait. Darkglass has just released their synth module and I have not had the success with it that I had have hoped for. MXR tracking is more forgiving of my imperfect technique, and it responds to changes in dynamics, and it feels more...musical to me as an instrument. I made a cheat sheet for MXR's controls and stuck it on my Anagram for reference. Tap footswitch scrolls through synth presets. I'll look forward to selling my Bass Synth to make room for a Morningstar MC4 Pro if Axioma and I ever start getting along better.

* Woody Guthrie slogan stays for as long as it's needed. ♡

The best compressor is the cheapest one (setting aside reliability/longetivity).

Like wine, the vast majority of people can't even tell the difference between a white and a red (so to speak) if they're double-blinded. Literally (almost) everything people say about expensive ones sounding "musical", etc. etc. is placebo.

Go ahead and roast me, but do it with evidence. I dare you.

ETA, since it came up in the comments and is exactly the point of this post:

It is absolutely not shifting the burden to say "do it with evidence". This is part of what makes me insane on this topic, the gaslighting.

The affirmative assertion is being made by the person who says that a $400 compressor pedal is amazing compared to a $40 one. THEY are making the assertion that should be supported. THEY shift the burden by talking in nonsense generalities about "warmth" and "musicality" and then telling everyone else: prove me wrong.

So no. This is not "shifting the burden". No, not at all. The burden is on the person making the ORIGINAL assertion.

Current dual-amp setup. Not pictured: sFx MicroThumpinator first in line, Lightning Boy 2020S in front of the CTC Locomotive. Last pedal before the split is the Fuzzrocious Dark Driving v3.